On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com> wrote: > Dear GNHLUG, > > A couple of (non-technical) friends of mine have expressed > a desire to move away from Google's services in response to > the latest publicised privacy/security gaffe. The big question > is "where do I go from GMail?"--I don't think I'm familiar enough > with the options for me to be comfortable making a recommendation > at this point..., and I'm wondering if maybe some of you can > provide some insight.
The biggest disclaimer to give is, *any* mail provider can potentially be compromised. My personal opinion is that the google gaffe wasn't nearly as bad as some providers compromises. It's a give and take. A smaller provider is a smaller target, but also less likely to be monitoring security threats and adapting to them. Actually, there really wasn't, specifically, a security compromise with google. It simply allowed cookies to get thru when you didn't want them to, but mostly do to Safari functionality, not google specifically. -- -- Thomas _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
